Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Matthias Andree
2005-12-04T16:12:00Z

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:57 +0100, M. wrote:
>
> >
> > if distros would align on those 6months versions those less
> > experienced users would get 5 years support on those kernels.
>
> no distro gives 5 years of support for a kernel done every 6 months;
> they start such projects more like every 18 to 24 months (SuSE used to
> do it a bit more frequently but it seems they also slowed this down).

SUSE end-user distros (SUSE LINUX <version>) are released every 6 months
or so, and are supported for 24 months. Their "enterprise server" is
supported for 60 months though, SLES 9 forked off 9.1.

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Matthias Andree